Movies
The following movies make a reference
to the game of Go.
- 2004:
After the Sunset, a lame crime comedy starring Pierce Brosnan, includes a scene where he is inexplicably playing a game of what appears to be go with his horribly miscast girlfriend, Salma Hayek. Once again, the producers failed to hire Bob Myers, the noted local go consultant, resulting in a highly artificial-appearing board situation. However, a close-up reveals that they were actually playing the stones on the intersections.
- recent: movie about Go Seigen,
shot in China 2002 with his approval. Title: 棋圣 吴清源 (translation: Kisei Go Seigen)
- 2003: Onmyoji 2 Abe no Seimei is playing a Shikigami in the form of his friend Minamoto no Hiromasa as a monk.
- 2002: Hero by Zhang Yimou
- 2001: A Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard
- 1997: Pi by Darren Aronofsky
- 1989:
Heathers, a Goban is seen in Wynona Rider's character's bedroom.
- 1998:
Restless Catherine Kellner plays Leah. Leah is adrift, restless. Landing in Beijing after a string of flights from failed romances, she falls in with other expatriates. A chance encounter with a young weiqi master she saw on TV leads to... well,let's stop there and not spoil it.
- 1983: The GO Masters by Sun Dao-Lin
- 1982: Mikan no Taikyoku "The Go Masters" by Ji-shun Duan
- 1957 Heaven Knows Mr. Allison by John Huston: Deborah Kerr plays a proper, devoted, caring nun and Robert Mitchum plays an unsophisticated, uneducated, somewhat crude, but kind-hearted Marine. They end up stranded together on an island overrun by the Japanese during World War 2. Trying to steal food, Mitchum is forced to wait through a game of go. Great!
- 1954: Godzilla: a few seconds of a go scene somewhere in the first five minutes.
1962: "Hatari" (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056059/)
which some might believe could be related to
go (especially with title uttered in my French accent).
Interestingly, "hatari" means "danger" in Swahili, so a
protolinguistic connection with Japanese (see
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/False%20cognate)?.
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See also an
Internet Go Filmography.